Regular researcher
Michel-Pierre Coll
Trained Neuropsychologist, his research interests focus on the cognitive neuroscience of pain and the use of artificial intelligence techniques and compulational modelling on brain scan data to develop tools to measure perceived pain and understand its modulation through a learning process.
Maximiliano Wilson
Trained Neuropsychologist, his research focuses on changes in the brain permitting the treatment of language, reading and semantics in normal and pathological aging (for ex., in primary progressive aphasia and Alzheimer’s Disease). He combines the study of behaviour with brain scan imagery techniques such as magnetic resonance and evoked response (electroencephalography).
Laura Monetta
Trained Speech Therapist, her work mainly focuses on the characterization, evaluation and efficacy of interventions in acquired language difficulties in unilingual and bilingual adults. She is also interested in the co-development, validity and implementation of programs promoting the integration and social participation of people with a communication-related handicap.
Myreille St-Onge
Trained Psychologist, she is mainly interested in the effects of peer-assistance and support by peers in the social participation of people with motor dysfunctions or mental health issues. She is also interested in learning support for youths with disabilities. She was actively involved in the developement of support groups for people auditory hallucinations (voices).
Mélanie Levasseur
After training in occupational therapy, clinical research (geriatrics and rehabilitation) and in public health (promotion of health), Professor Levasseur developped a vast research program on the development and evaluation of a continuum of innovative interventions to promote social participation in the elderly. These interventions include the Personalized Citizen Support for Community Integration or l’Accompagnement-citoyen personnalisé d’intégration communautaire (APIC), the Lifestyle Redesign® Program and the Index to Potential Social Participation (IPSP) or l’Indice du potentiel de participation sociale (IPPS). To facilitate social participation in the elderly in a different way, other innovative interventions aim to stop agism, stimulate the elderly on a social level with the help of robotics, develop mutual assistance between citizens and revitalize the downtown areas and make them more inclusive.
Valérie Poulin
Occupational Therapist, her research focuses on rehabilitation and social inclusion for people with disabilities (including cognitive deficits) or living in situations of vulnerability, as well as on the transfer of knowledge and implementation of best practices in these areas.
Philippe Cardou
Mechanical Engineer, his research focuses on robotics and its mechanisms, with a particular interest for cable training robots such as Skycam.
Patrick Fougeyrollas
Anthropologist specializing in the social study of disabilities, his research focuses on human development and the disability production process, human rights, the measurement of social participation and environment, inclusive accessibility, the evaluation of policies and programs, social representation, disability compensation, human rights groups, inclusive cities, living together in harmony, intersectionality and personal assistance.
Mathieu Hotton
Audiologist, his research focuses mainly on the use and efficacy of new hearing enhancement technologies (hearing aids and hearing replacement), as well as on the professional practice surrounding the fitting process. He is also interested in new rehabiltation approaches, as well as on the evaluation of audiology-related needs.
Martin Caouette
Psychoeducator, his research focuses on the autodetermination of adults with intellectual deficits or autism spectrum disorder to better understand the stakes related to residential and socioprofessional contexts and during the transition from school to adulte life, as well as the practices of caregivers. He works with different areas of practice in Quebec and internationnally to faciliate the transfer of knowledge and the proximity of clinical environments.
Marie-Catherine St-Pierre
Speech Therapist, her research focuses on oral and written language problems in school years. She is interested in the language processes at the root of learning and mastery of reading and writing. Her research aims at the development of practices to help workers offer adapted help and intervene with children living with spoken and written language problems, as well as on the continuous professional development of teachers and school professionals.
Manon Truchon
Manon Truchon is a full professor at Université Laval’s School of Psychology. She teaches in the fields of occupational health psychology. Work-related stress and the determinants of well-being and job satisfaction are at the heart of her research concerns, as are the development, monitoring and evaluation of preventive organizational interventions (e.g. collective and participative approaches, ergonomic approach) aimed at creating ethical and empowering work environments conducive to well-being, quality of work life and productivity. More recently, she has been focusing on the organizational climate of psychosocial health and safety, which refers to practices, policies and procedures aimed at protecting psychological health and safety in the workplace, and preventing short- and long-term absence linked to musculoskeletal and psychological disorders. She is also interested in individual and organizational primary prevention approaches for work-related stress, burnout and vicarious post-traumatic stress.